Accuracy, Recall, Precision, F-Score & Specificity, which to optimize on?

Based on your project, which performance metric to improve on?

Salma Ghoneim
Towards Data Science
5 min readApr 2, 2019

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I will use a basic example to explain each performance metric on in order for you to really understand the difference between each one of them. So that in your next ML project you can choose which performance metric to improve on that…

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SDE at Microsoft, Passionate about frontend development, fascinated by artificial intelligence, Interested in game development.